RPO -- Alexander Pope : An Essay on Man: Epistle I - 2 views
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Awake, my St. John!
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Michelle Kassorla on 01 Aug 11He is directing his attention to his friend, St. John (prounounced "Sin-jin"). Because he refers to him by his given name and not by his title, you can tell that the author is friends with St. John.
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To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
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Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man
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A mighty maze!
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The maze is an ancient symbol for the fate of man. The one who is in the maze cannot see how to get out. See [http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/maa/Interview_with_the_Minotaur/rite.htm]
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A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; 8Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
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let us beat this ample field
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Try what the open, what the covert yield
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blindly creep, or sightless soar
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Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, 14And catch the manners living as they rise;
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But vindicate the ways of God to man.